Streaming exclusively on MUBI this month is Karim Aïnouz’s radical new film, ROSEBUSH PRUNING. Featuring an all-star cast including Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Elle Fanning, Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Elena Anaya, Tracy Letts and Pamela Anderson, the film is a bold, unpredictable portrait of a wealthy family where privilege, desire and long-buried secrets collide.
Also streaming exclusively on MUBI this month is ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s most ambitious work to date, this France–Lesotho co-production creates a dialogue between past and future, exploring the enduring power of ancestral knowledge alongside the broken promises of modern life.
As always, MUBI has curated a wonderful collection of new and timeless classics, celebrating some of the finest cinema from around the world.
ROSEBUSH PRUNING
Karim Aïnouz | Italy, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom | 2026 | August 21
Karim Aïnouz, the Brazilian-German filmmaker known for Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão and Motel Destino, brings his most radical work yet to MUBI. Rosebush Pruning, a European co-production filmed in four countries, opens a new chapter in his career. His films often focus on bodies under pressure, desire as a political battleground, and a willingness to confront what society tends to ignore.
Rosebush Pruning is visceral, formally daring, and filled with the dark wit that has set Aïnouz's films apart from the beginning. It stands in the tradition of movies that use provocation not just to shock, but to reveal deeper truths. The film holds up a distorted mirror to modern life, making its most unsettling aspects impossible to overlook.
A MUBI Release. Streaming exclusively on MUBI.
STREAMING AUGUST 21
ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | France, Lesotho | 2025 | August 14
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese returns with his most ambitious work so far. The Lesotho filmmaker, known for the extraordinary This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection, one of the most important African films of the last decade, has created a style that blends spiritual urgency with formal innovation. His films draw on oral tradition, shared memory, and the landscapes of southern Africa.
Ancestral Visions of the Future takes this unique approach even further. This France-Lesotho co-production creates a conversation between past and future, exploring the lasting power of ancestral knowledge alongside the broken promises of modern life.
Filmed with the poetic intensity that defines Mosese's work, the movie avoids simple answers and instead offers a deeply immersive experience.
A Global Exclusive on MUBI.
STREAMING AUGUST 14
THE ASSISTANT
Kitty Green | USA | 2019 | August 14
The film follows Jane, a recent college graduate and the youngest assistant at a major New York film production company, through a single workday. She arrives before dawn and leaves long after dark. During her day, she files papers, cleans the office, books flights, and manages the schedule of a boss who is never seen but whose presence is felt in every room and every conversation.
Australian director Kitty Green crafts a film that works through subtle details and suggestion. The story unfolds in what is left unsaid, what remains on desks, and what is quietly endured. Julia Garner's performance shows the strain of working in an environment built on complicity and pretending not to know. The film's powerful climax, a visit to HR, comes without shouting or dramatic scenes—just the relentless logic of a system protecting itself.
This is a clear and precise look at institutional power, complicity, and the price of staying silent. It is essential viewing.
STREAMING AUGUST 14
ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS
SOLO SUNNY (1980) – A landmark East German film by Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase. It tells the story of Sunny, a singer in a struggling variety troupe, as she deals with love, independence, and the challenges of self-determination in the GDR. Renate Krößner's performance, which won the Silver Bear at Berlin, is one of the great portrayals of a woman refusing to be diminished by her surroundings. The film is deeply human and quietly subversive.
Streaming August 1
LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005) – Yamashita Nobuhiro’s film follows a group of high school girls who have only three days to learn and perform The Blue Hearts’ “Linda Linda Linda” at their school festival. The movie explores friendship, effort, and the excitement of facing a challenge that feels overwhelming. Bae Doona stands out in her role.
Streaming August 1
ARMY OF SHADOWS (1969) – Jean-Pierre Melville's film tells the story of a group of French Resistance fighters during the Occupation. Based on Joseph Kessel's novel and filmed with Melville's signature style, the movie is more about what it takes to survive and the price people pay than about war itself. Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret deliver powerful performances.
Streaming August 7
THE LONELINESS OF LIZARDS (2025) –Inês Nunes's first feature is a subtle Portuguese-Spanish co-production that introduces a promising new voice in European independent cinema.
Streaming August 21
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
TUNING IN: SONIC JOURNEYS
Spotlight: August 1
Our annual music focus explores the power of music and sound, bringing together electrifying concert documentaries, intimate musician portraits, and films distinguished by rich and inventive soundscapes. From the underground raves of North Africa to the post-punk stages of Tokyo, this collection listens as closely as it looks.
Includes: The Non-Actor, 7 Piano Sketches, Linda Linda Linda, Solo Sunny, Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul, Pavements, Sirât.
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight: August 7
Masterpieces of crime from the French filmmaker who reinvented genre cinema for modern and modernist audiences. Emphasising ice-cool atmospherics, crisp cinematography, and outsider characters operating at the edge of the law, Melville's cinema telescopes in on profound acts of rebellion — a body of work that influenced everyone from John Woo to Michael Mann.
Includes: Army of Shadows, Bob le Flambeur, Léon Morin, Priest, The Red Circle, Un Flic.
GODZILLA: KING OF MONSTERS
Spotlight: August 14
In 1954, a giant monster emerged from Tokyo Bay, launching the longest-running franchise in cinema history. From atomic-age fears to epic monster battles, these films capture the anxieties and spectacle of their respective eras. Seven decades of kaiju cinema, spanning Honda's original classics to the millennium series.
Includes: Mothra vs. Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters!, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, The Return of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Biollante, Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack.
JOANNA HOGG SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight: August 14
A spotlight on the cinema of Joanna Hogg. Her characters often find themselves on unsteady ground — from Technicolour wonderlands to sun-kissed resort towns, a change of scenery can spell adventure or impending crisis. No matter how far these wandering souls travel, they can never run away from themselves. A filmmaker whose quiet precision continues to reshape British cinema.
Includes: Archipelago, Exhibition, Caprice, Unrelated.
CAUSING A STIR: MODERN PROVOCATIONS
Spotlight: August 21
Every family has its black sheep — and so does cinema. Featuring the deliriously perverse Rosebush Pruning alongside works by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Radu Jude, and Yorgos Lanthimos, this incendiary collection revels in provocation. To see these visions of excess and decay is to step into the funhouse mirror of modern life, swamped with twisted reflections of human nature.
Includes: Rosebush Pruning, Crimes Of The Future, Liberte, Attenberg, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Dogtooth.
ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI: A DOUBLE BILL
Spotlight: August 21
Alongside Yorgos Lanthimos, Athina Rachel Tsangari is a defining member of the Greek New Wave. This double bill pairs her breakout masterpiece with a singular short: films whose off-beat style, dark humour, and shrewd visuals explore gender, power, and national identity in modern Greece.
Includes: Attenberg, The Capsule.
HELLO WORLD?
Spotlight: August 25
Aimed at teenagers, students, and twenty-somethings, this collection of coming-of-age films speaks directly to the experiences of young audiences. Classic titles and new releases come together in a heartfelt exploration of transitional moments — the new chapters young people face, and the friendships that help shape who they become.
Includes: Gasoline Rainbow, All These Sleepless Nights,, Shiva Baby, Actual People, Tendaberry, Toxic.